Great Men Quotes - Page 3

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

A great many of us have confused change with progress.

A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

It is the success which makes great men.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

Great men don't 'move to the center' - great men move the center!

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.

Great men have big failures.

Behind every great man is an even greater woman.

All great men usually are awakened by the great women in their lives. No matter what friction is there, if that relationship was there, that usually is their best friend, at the end of the day.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

A great man is one sentence.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

Marriage is god's way to ensure there are few great men

The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.